Do you give anyone a tip at Christmas.

I tip my barber - normally get him a bottle of whiskey and don't ask for change from £20. He's an amusing chap, apart from being uncomfortably casually racist.
 
Kiyoshi said:
I've read this twice and still have no idea what you're talking about.
Click to expand...


No? Okay I’ll try to elaborate, a lock is an equivalent way of saying an absolute certainty, granted it’s an expression that is in more common parlance in the U.S., but having spent so much time there, I find myself using it often, and most of my friends that frequent betting shops and race tracks in the U.K. know it and use it.
The numbers one and a half and two, in a barber context, refer to the number(s) on the clip guard that the barber uses to cut your hair, the lower the number, the closer the cut to your skull.
The # 1 is about one eighth of an inch, very short, and they increase in halves, # 2 is about a quarter of an inch.
Hope this is easier to understand, have yourself a Merry Little Christmas.
 
Our bin men asked my daughter if they had a Christmas tip the other day, she rang me to see what I thought...

I told her to tell them, 1, you don’t ask for a tip, it’s offered and 2, Had they not been such picky tossers over the last year by leaving my bin because the lid wasn’t shut tight then maybe they’d have got one....

My next door neighbour always tips them because ,apparently,if you don’t they’ll damage your car deliberately with the bins!

Thankfully I’m always away long before they arrive, if that makes me a Scrooge, so be it!

I’ve given money to homeless people from time to time but tend to do that all year round rather than just at Christmas time, let one lad sit in my truck for an hour to warm through a couple of weeks back in the bad weather and made him a warm brew, we had a good chat, nice enough lad in his situation after a marriage break up and loss of job followed by eviction, offered him £10 and he thanked me but refused, his bed for the night was inside a disused warehouse on the industrial estate I was parked up for the night on - much to my surprise (stereotyping) he didn’t smell at all, guess he’d gone past the stage of smelling if such a thing is possible? - he’d been on the streets around 8 weeks.
 
Last edited:
Shocky-FM said:
You only tip people for going above and beyond, not for doing their job.
Click to expand...


Except for Black Cab drivers, one should always tip them, (he said, wearing his retired Black Cab driver’s hat).
If you use minicabs, (pauses to spit at the thought), you obviously are too impoverished and cheap to tip, so don’t.

Scania said:
Our bin men asked my daughter if they had a Christmas tip the other day, she rang me to see what I thought...

I told her to tell them, 1, you don’t ask for a tip, it’s offered and 2, Had they not been such picky tossers over the last year by leaving my bin because the lid wasn’t shut tight then maybe they’d have got one....

My next door neighbour always tips them because ,apparently,if you don’t they’ll damage your car deliberately with the bins!
Click to expand...

I’d never do it, as a lifelong blue collar working Londoner, it would go completely against the grain, but that’s patent blackmail right there, and I’d toy with diming them to the local authority, but to reiterate, I wouldn’t do it.
It it was my daughter or granddaughter though, I might opt for the “you make her cry, and I’ll make you cry” line.
Providing the garbage collectors were all weedy midgets you understand.
 
i meant to get some biscuits for the cleaner, and then last few weeks she's been pretty ****. Before i get torn a new one, i don't have a personal cleaner, i live in a block with one cleaner for the full block :p
 
Jean-F said:
Except for Black Cab drivers, one should always tip them, (he said, wearing his retired Black Cab driver’s hat).
If you use minicabs, (pauses to spit at the thought), you obviously are too impoverished and cheap to tip, so don’t.



I’d never do it, as a lifelong blue collar working Londoner, it would go completely against the grain, but that’s patent blackmail right there, and I’d toy with diming them to the local authority, but to reiterate, I wouldn’t do it.
It it was my daughter or granddaughter though, I might opt for the “you make her cry, and I’ll make you cry” line.
Providing the garbage collectors were all weedy midgets you understand.
Click to expand...
I was away in my truck when this happened, I’ll be speaking to them sternly when I next see them, that’s for sure, I think they assumed my daughter was the occupier of the property and we’re trying to take advantage of a lone young woman.
 
For me, if I receive good service, I never quibble. I resent being forced say, paying 15% surcharge when the service is rubbish or with attitude; just really winds me up.

Take-Away - Usually always. One time I tipped a miserable sod and thought - Why? However, it paid off - The guy is a different character now. News must have reached back as all the delivery's are on time.

Couriers - It's a hard job. If the item is on time in one piece and something I am really looking forward to receiving (and not bashed up). Happy to provide a tip. Understandably the high turnover of staff, rarely see a regular. The same for postie's. If it's a regular and I tend to receive my parcels at a similar time - I will happily leave a tip for Xmas.

Rubbish men. I tip in a different way - I usually leave items which may find a new home and can be recycled (DVD's/Games).
 
Most of the posties on my round have been absolute diamonds this year.

I had a two tins of chocolates going spare I bought for someone I couldn't be arsed to take them around to so I took them down the sorting office where one of them regularly works the desk. His manager/supervisor was there and he seems like the rotten apple of the bunch, he wouldn't let me give them the chocolates as it violated some regulation or other.

I never see them doing the rounds otherwise I'd have handed them over to him then, thought I was doing something decent, oh well. Merry christmas.

Don't see the bin men and they're communal bins anyway.

Don't have takeaways so nobody there to tip.

Posties was literally the only one who deserved it.
 
Hades said:
Nope. Never give a Christmas tip nowadays. My Christmas bonus went years ago too.
Click to expand...

My company restructured a couple years ago. The Christmas bonus is something peanuts like £60 and they moved the bulk of it to individual performance bonuses. Does mean you can get more than 100% of it and poor performers get nowt. Been told I got 125%, assuming the FY17 financials are up to scratch, but that won't be til next year.

I do miss blowing my Christmas bonus on expensive liquor and video games :(
 
Our bin men are ace, take anything we put out.

Cats, dogs, burglars, left over bones from the pigs eating, well you know, stuff.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom